22 June 2009, Rowland Heights, Calif., USA – Chinese SATs are only held during November.  A children’s Chinese bookstore is reminding high school students  to prepare as early as now.

ChildBook.com reminds high school students that the Chinese SAT II this year will only be held on November 9, 2009.  To assist the young people to get exemplary scores for the test, ChildBook is making available a reviewer set, the  “Chinese SAT II”.

The SAT Subject Test in Chinese is an 85-item multiple choice test that measure a student’s knowledge of the Chinese language.  Students who have 2 to 4 years of Chinese instruction and practice are encouraged to take the test.

The “Chinese SAT II” reviewer is compiled by the Association of Northern California of Chinese Schools.  Practice tests for reading, listening and usage are included.  The reviewer set contains 2 books and 2 audio CDs.  It also contains tips on how to score high in the SAT II.

ChildBook is accommodating the demand for reviewers this summer break as the long vacation is the perfect time for young people to review. At this time, school work load is much lighter compared to when simultaneously studying and reviewing during the academic year.

The SATs measure the proficiency of high school students in different subject areas.  Almost all colleges and universities in the US consider SAT scores in the admission process.

Deadline of registration for taking the SAT Subject Test in Chinese is on October 9, 2009.  Contact your local College Board office for more details.

Contact:
Ray Ritchey
[email protected],
Tel. 909-595-8882

About ChildBook
http://www.childbook.com is an online Learn-Chinese bookstore for children.  Since 1997, ChildBook has been helping kids and their families get the Chinese advantage with its bilingual English-Chinese books, videos, songs and other educational materials.  ChildBook also offers free learning resources for kids and teaching guides for parents and teachers.

The Institute for Business Continuity Training today announced it will provide new Early Bird incentives to assist firms sending participants to its business continuity workshops. Effective immediately, IBCT will provide free airfare, free hotel and/or free meals to all course participants who register under the Early Bird incentive plan.

“In these times of economic uncertainly, all companies need a business continuity plan more now than ever before”, notes IBCT Managing Director Michael Bittle. “With revenue and supplies stretched as thin as they are, even a minor business interruption can quickly escalate into a major disaster.”

At the same time, due to the current economic climate, companies have trimmed their travel and training budgets, making it more difficult to acquire the knowledge and expertise necessary for creating an effective business continuity plan.

IBCT would like to help all firms and course participants address their Business Continuity training needs, and is now offering the following Early Bird incentives to course participants who register and pay for their courses at least one month in advance.

For a limited time, participants taking the 4-day Effective Business Continuity Management course at a USA location:

> who register and pay the full ECP-601 course fee at least two months before the course start date will receive free airfare (within continental USA), free accommodation at the course hotel for the duration of the course, and free meals for the duration of the course; or

> who register and pay the full ECP-601 course fee at least one month before the course start date will receive free accommodation at the course hotel for the duration of the course, and free meals for the duration of the course.

Some restrictions must necessarily apply, other arrangements can be negotiated, and details of each incentive will be decided upon a case-by-case basis in consultation with the course participant.

Inquiries should be sent by email to [email protected]

“All companies need a business continuity plan, now more than ever before” adds Mr. Bittle. “It is our hope that with these new Early Bird incentives, the Institute for Business Continuity Training can ensure individuals and companies continue receiving the business continuity training they need.”

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About the Institute for Business Continuity Training:

IBCT courses are very often cited as the best business continuity courses in the world. Our clients include American, Canadian and British government agencies, Fortune 500 and other corporations in North America, Western and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and the Caribbean. IBCT offers in-person, online and private courses.

Contact Information:
Michael Bittle
Managing Director
Institute for Business Continuity Training
1623 Military Road, # 377
Niagara Falls NY 14304
USA

T: +1-877-753-3147
F: +1-866-835-2112
E: mbittle @ ibct.com
W: www ibct com

http://www.IBCT.com

The Institute for Business Continuity Training is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing private sector firms, government and other non-profit agencies with all the support they need to develop and maintain effective Business Continuity/COOP programs.

We offer regularly scheduled public courses plus private in-house training, BCP/COOP consulting services, online training, BCP/COOP Plan testing and exercising, and BCP/COOP Gap Analysis and audit. All of our staff are professionally qualified BCP practitioners with at least 20 years of experience in private industry and/or government service.

IBCT courses are very often cited as the best business continuity courses in the world. Our clients include American, Canadian and British government agencies, Fortune 500 and other corporations in North America, Western and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and the Caribbean. IBCT offers in-person, online and private courses.

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About the Institute for Business Continuity Training:

IBCT courses are very often cited as the best business continuity courses in the world. Our clients include American, Canadian and British government agencies, Fortune 500 and other corporations in North America, Western and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and the Caribbean. IBCT offers in-person, online and private courses.

The Institute for Business Continuity Training is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing private sector firms, government and other non-profit agencies with all the support they need to develop and maintain effective Business Continuity/COOP programs.

June 11, 2009 – Rowland Heights, Ca., USA – A Chinese bookstore for kids is pleased to make available for all Chinese language readers Chinese Harry Potter books before the movie is shown in July this year.

ChildBook.com is carrying the Chinese translations of Harry Potter 6: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and other books in the series. Since summer vacation is up, students of Chinese can read the Chinese Harry Potter 6 before the movie comes out on July 7 this year.

Practice reading of Chinese using the Harry Potter book series are guaranteed to be exciting. Basic-level readers of Chinese are encouraged to try reading the Chinese Harry Potter books. Mom or dad, or a Chinese-English dictionary, will come in handy.

Harry Potter 6 revolves around Harry Potter finding the different Horcruxes that shelter splintered parts of Voldemort’s soul. As the war of the wizards continue, romance also blossoms between the teen-age wizards of Hogwarts. See if Harry will be able to round up all Horcruxes before Voldemort conquers the wizard world.

ChildBook assures all Chinese Harry Potter books are authentic JK Rowling books, supplied by a reputable Taiwan dealer. Customers are assured of ChildBook’s 100% money-back guarantee in this regard.

Chinese Harry Potter book bundle, containing all 7 Harry books, come in either Simplified or Traditional Chinese.

ChildBook.com has been offering high quality Learn-Chinese materials for children since 1997. The store aims to help kids enjoy learning and practicing Chinese with stories, videos, songs and more.

Being signed to one of the most storied record labels in music history has its valleys and peaks. And while only a few know the feeling, no one may know it better than Tha Realest who is preparing to release his debut album “Witness Tha Realest” on July 14th from Team Dime Ent. & RBC Records.

Proving his depth in the game, “Witness Tha Realest” isn’t your typical debut. The album features assistance from Ray J, Fat Joe, WC, J. Valentine, Crooked I, Yukmouth, EDI of Tha Outlawz, Devin The Dude, Sean P, C-Bo, and more. “Witness Tha Realest” will finally see the light of day after being over 10 years in the making.

“Get It N” is the album’s street single, produced by Detail of Konvict Music and is already making rounds in clubs across the nation.

Having signed to Death Row Records in 1996, Tha Realest is best known for looking and sounding similar to Tupac Shakur. Often having to address rumors that it was he who recorded many posthumous Pac verses, that would ultimately appear on the late rappers own records released after his passing.

He made his musical debut on the Gang Related soundtrack, appearing in two songs with rapper J-Flexx under the pseudonym Tenkamenin, sharing his name with a 11th century African Emperor of the Ghana Empire. In 1999, he performed seven tracks on the Death Row collaboration Suge Knight Represents: Chronic 2000. He would again appear on yet another Death Row compilation titled Too Gangsta for Radio, performing on two songs.

Tha Realest left Death Row Records in 2002 to form his own record label, 2Real Entertainment (later Omerta Entertainment). Now, in conjunction with RBC Records and NBA Superstar Mike Bibby’s Team Dime Ent., Tha Realest is set to release his first solo record “Witness Tha Realest” on July 14th.

Become a Witness to Tha Realest.

Tha Realest
Witness Tha Realest - July 14
Team Dime / RBC Records
www.tharealest.com | www.myspace.com/tharealest

Most college students get through school by placing a strong emphasis on rote memorization skills, and as a result, end up lacking critical thinking skills when they graduate.

Adjunct professor Gian Fiero has written an article, “How To Be A Better Student And A Smarter Person,” which offers remedies.

Also covered in the article are:

-The importance of evaluating professors

-Researching courses

-Studying the syllabus before committing to classes

-Networking with other students

-Taking notes

-The art of posing questions

-Cross referencing data

-Using industry publications

-Creating study groups

-The importance of mentors

The article “How To Be A Better Student And A Smarter Person,” can be accessed here:

http://ezinearticles.com/?How-to-Become-a-Better-Student—and-a-Smarter-Person&id=910635

NOW AVAILABLE through WHSmith, Waterstones, Amazon worldwide and other stores.

444 pages

ISBN: 1849238901

Synopsis:

For twenty years civil war has torn the Empire apart; the Imperial line extinguished as the mad Emperor Quintus burned in his palace, betrayed by his greatest general. Against a background of war, decay, poverty and violence, men who once served in the proud Imperial army now fight as mercenaries, hiring themselves to the greediest lords.

On a hopeless battlefield that same general, now a mercenary captain tortured by the events of his past, stumbles across hope in the form of a young man begging for help. Kiva is forced to face more than his dark past as he struggles to put his life and the very Empire back together. The last scion of the Imperial line will change Kiva forever.

Excerpt from Interregnum:

“the man continued forward, his two weapons

“the man continued forward, his two weapons ready and swinging as he moved. Athas stood still, arms remaining folded. Quintillian tugged on the medic’s arm.

“This isn’t good” he said urgently. “Why isn’t the captain helping?”

Mercurias grinned back at him.

“He doesn’t need any help. Can’t you see that?”

The large man finally broke his slow advance and ran at Athas, the mace high and ready to drop and the sword jutting forwards at chest height. Athas continued to stand until the last moment, when he shifted his weight slightly to the left, stepped forward inside the reach of the blade and, unfolding his arms, jammed the fork he’d been holding into the man’s throat. The momentum carried the two forward a couple more paces, the fork tearing skin as the movement jarred them both. As they stopped, the big man stared down in shock and the weapons toppled from his hands. He reached both arms toward Athas, who merely waggled the fork, still buried in the man’s neck. His other finger waved in front of the enemy as though scolding a naughty child.

“Ah Ah. Play nice” he said sweetly.

The big man’s hands dropped slowly to his sides. Athas smiled at him.

“I’m now going to remove the fork” he said slowly and clearly. “You’re going to have to reach up very quickly and grasp your throat to prevent too much blood loss. After that you’re going to leave. We have a medic in the corner, but I doubt he’ll feel inclined to help you.”

Mercurias laughed as Athas continued. “I noticed an apothecary on the way into town. If you can get there without too much blood loss, you’ll be alright, but it’ll cost you a packet and you may never speak again, coz I think I touched your voice box. Be happy. I could have stuck your windpipe. Ready?”

The big man, a stunned and stupefied look on his face, nodded, causing him to wince as a fresh gout of blood pumped out around the fork.

“Go!”

Athas removed the utensil with a bold, sweeping stroke and a great quantity of dark blood splashed onto the floor. A fraction of a second later, Jorun was out of the tavern, one hand clutching his throat very tight. The sergeant bent down and gingerly, trying to avoid the bulk of the blood, picked the two weapons up from where they lay. He tossed the mace onto the bar.

“Sell it to pay for the cleaning” he said loudly.

Synopsis:

For twenty years civil war has torn the Empire apart; the Imperial line extinguished as the mad Emperor Quintus burned in his palace, betrayed by his greatest general. Against a background of war, decay, poverty and violence, men who once served in the proud Imperial army now fight as mercenaries, hiring themselves to the greediest lords.

On a hopeless battlefield that same general, now a mercenary captain tortured by the events of his past, stumbles across hope in the form of a young man begging for help. Kiva is forced to face more than his dark past as he struggles to put his life and the very Empire back together. The last scion of the Imperial line will change Kiva forever.

—— Excerpt from Interregnum ——